This is of prime authenticity and authority, being nothing less than two hundred and forty-five letters written by Wyeth before, during, and after his expeditions, together with his original journal of them both, just as it was jotted down day by day. Nearly all of this is brand new matter, hidden from the public in manuscript all these years, and no more genuine “sources” of history of trade, settlement and adventure in the West will ever be forthcoming.—From the Nation (New York) issue of December 14, 1899.
“Seldom has a young historical society been able to illustrate the early annals of its locality by the printing of manuscripts so interesting and so important as The Correspondence and Journal of Captain Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 1831-6, which the Secretary of the Oregon Historical Society, Prof. F. G. Young, has just published as a part of his series of ‘Sources of the History of Oregon.’ He has been so fortunate as to find, in the possession of a lady in Massachusetts, letter books containing two hundred and forty-five of Wyeth’s letters, and his journals of the two expeditions—1832-1833 and 1834-1836—which he conducted from the East to the Oregon country, with a view to the occupation of the latter by the Americans of the United States. These Mr. Young has printed in a volume of two hundred and ninety-two pages, with two maps. It makes a contribution to the early history of the state which would alone justify the existence of the Oregon Historical Society.”—From the American Historical Review, October, 1899.
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